Cirque Du Soleil's Delirium coming to Verizon Center

[acroyear]

June 22nd through the 24th.  Tickets range from 40 to 120.

More information here...

Comments

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

You know, there is more than one friggin weekend in the year. Why must everything be on the same weekend? This is now event #4. Bleh.

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

From what I have heard, the show is the first Cirque show to totally and completely blow. From an email I got today about it "Don't go! It was an awful show and a waste of money when we saw it last year in Baltimore - feel free to spread the word."

As you know, I tend to LOVE Cirque but from what I hear, this is a bad rock concert, with way too much volume (even compared to rock concerts which says a lot), tacky lights, etc.. Blech

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

To put it into perspective, someone would probably have to buy me ear plugs and pay me to go to this thing.

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

You aren't missing a thing on this POS

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

i don't doubt it.

i've heard the remixes of the cirque tunes used in the show and don't care for that. there's a delicacy to, say, Pokinoi, that is completely lost when it's mixed to sound like Nine Inch Nails performed it.

i didn't say i was going (we intend to enjoy la nouba in may), just putting it out there that it was on.

yeah, if i was 23, or even 17, and a cirque fan i would go. but i'm old.

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

La Nouba is cool. I suspect you will really appreciate the building.

I commented mainly so that others who see your post may investigate a bit before buying tickets. Generally, I assume that if you post something like that, it is under the "cool show coming, go see" category.

[wildwose.livejournal.com]

Well,
All issues of quality aside, I wanted to offer some info that a former MDRF Rennie is working behind scenes for this show.

"Fluffy" a long time hard road rennie and booth worker. At MD she was one of our shop elves doing week work in production for our masks and on the weekends she was a booth assistant to the Bowed Psaltries. Lovely, (really beautiful actually) Fluffy big red hair, very talented costumer/seamtress.
Real name of Susan. She has made show garb for a number of Rennie Street acts, Airel Angels among them. Fluffy practically lived with us during the 05 season. She tired of the Renn Circuit and sold off all her fixed belongings in CO. Packed up the van and the cat and went to Hollywood. She was very proud and happy to announce her position as a costume tech with Cirque on this tour. She will be doing the states and then Europe.

I can well attest that working tech even for a show your not fond of can still be great, as backstage is a world unto itself. Now I have only experienced smaller, and up to big city stage shows. I can only imagine the thrill of working a production like Cirque.

I just got an email from her about the show coming to DC a few minutes before reading this one and it was nice remembering an old slogan among the original counter culture/hippie/rennie scene that the festivals are built on. I had it as a bumper sticker for years. "We Are Everywhere"

[mistressfetch.livejournal.com]

Love Cirque Du Soleil!! I went to see Corteo in November and it was awesome. I always say, if you can afford it, spring for the seats near the stage. It is soooooooo worth it!!
Hope to see you there :-)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, keep reading and see the preview at the website. Delirium is a rock-concert experience, something akin to "what if Cirque did a Rave" rather than the ethereal experience of most cirque shoes (much less the impressionist-driven Corteo, which I adore).

at this point, i'm probably not going to this one, as (as i wrote above) we're already spending a couple thou at disney world and intend to see La Nouba (a resident show) down there.